It's time once again to share your finished goal for the month.
This link up will remain open until July 31 at 11:55 pm EST.
Want to see everyone's goals? Check out the July goal page.
My goal this month was to make any amount of progress on my Forever Neverland quilt. I was really, really hoping to have a completed top. By mid-July I had finished sewing the pieced blocks. So, my goal was technically achieved, but not at the level I'd hoped for.
This month really got away from me and I realized Tuesday that I needed to work on my post for Friday (and really, Thursday night since it goes live at 12:05 am). That was apparently the motivation I needed to start working on this project. Tuesday I fixed the parts of the blocks above that needed addressing and sewed them together.
I trimmed the panel to the correct size and then fudged it a little so that I didn't have any of the white showing. I find that a lot of panels that come through here tend to be parallelograms. This one was fairly on-grain, so that was nice.
I cut and created the other borders.
As of Wednesday night, I made it this far. Everything lined up nicely except for the border I cut 1/2" too long. Oops! Just two borders remain. 
While I don't think I can fully finish this quilt before the end of the month, I feel pretty confident I can get the last two borders on and get it quilted.
Now it's your turn to share your finish (or your progress if you didn't quite make it to the finish line).
Take a few minutes to visit others, offer encouragement, and make new friends!
This link up will remain open until 11:55 pm EST on July 31. Make sure you add a link to this OMG post so others can find the OMG link up from your blog--just paste this link into your post:
Stories from the Sewing Room July One Monthly Goal Finish Link Up
Your Forever Neverland is looking adorable! Good point about panels often being printed off grain. That's unfortunate since beginners are often drawn to panel projects and the off-grain printing is something they are unlikely to notice or know how to deal with. Even experienced quilters are apt to just cut along the print, start sewing things together, and discover midway that their center "rectangle" is somewhat out of whack!
ReplyDeleteNice progress on your panel quilt. I didn't even think about panels being off grain when I recently quilted one. It won't hang straight. But you pointing that out was an "Aha" and "Duh" for me simultaneously. Thankfully mine is staying in the sewing room.
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